Whether Rodriguez was your guy all along, or you felt more comfortable with Brian Fuentes, Kerry Wood or Trevor Hoffman, you've gotta tip your hat to GM Omar Minaya, who essentially took the big dog off the market before even unpacking his bags in Las Vegas this week.

Kudos to the Wilpons too for opening their wallets even though they are already on the hook for $10M Billy Wagner bucks in 2009.

But, at the risk of sounding ungrateful... don't stop here.

Because of the New York Mets 2008 bullpen, I'll probably never be able to sit comfortably through the final stages of a game again in my life. This condition is called being "traumatized," so I'm told, and I've got Aaron Heilman and his pals to thank for it.

This bullpen revamping can't end with a new closer. Even if he holds the single-season record for saves.

A setup man who can reliably get outs No. 22, 23 and 24 is still desperately needed, shoving Heilman out of the Metropolitan bullpen and Pedro Feliciano and/or Scott Schoeneweis into strict specialist duty.